The Objective of this research Project is to rethink of historical relationships between Japan and Middle Eastern Muslim regions. In so doing to pursue this object, we first interviewed the persons who had experiences in the Middle East as business men, journalists or specialists after World War Two. We published one research publication in which Japanese business-persons, journalists and specialists on various areas were interviewed in the first years of this project.In 2004, that is, the last working year of the project, we continued to categorize the written materials and books that Mr. Mitsuo Ozaki (1902-1985) wrote and collected when he worked as agricultural specialist in Afghanistan in the middle of the 1930s. Mr. Ozaki stayed in Kabul, Afganistan as a governmental adviser to agriculture between 1935 and 1938. During his stay he did field research including taking and drawing pictures and took data and kept it on note-books in detail in the field, while he wrote a diary in his p
… Morerivate daily life and many letters to his friends. We published parts of Ozakis collection as forms of CD-ROM and written reports.We also organized international workshops in Cairo and Tokyo during the project period. Firstly in February 2004 we held a workshop titled as "Reconsidering Relations between the Arabs and Japan" in Cairo, in which Japanese and Arab journalists, university and institute scholars, and Ph.D. candidates participated from researchers of literature to social and political scientists. The discussion in the workshop was heated due to the deep gaps between the Japanese and the Arabs, but we regarded this workshop as successful since we sat and talk together at the same place for a long time. Official language was both English and Arabic.The second workshop was held in Tokyo in February 2005.. The title of the workshop was "Comparing Colonialism in special reference to Israel and Egypt as well as Korea and Japan. In the workshop, six papers on colonialism were read and commented to each paper. We learned from the workshop that Japan took lessons from British experience in Egypt when Japan ruled Korean peninsula in 1910 as late runner of imperialism in the world. We also find out common phenomenon among Jewish Zionists settlers in Palestine and Israel and Japanese settlers in Manchuria in terms of the pursuit of colonial interests as colonizers in the victims of the colonizers.. Less